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phpmyadmin & mysql problem

I just recently installed phpMyAdmin on local computer for testing purposes. However, I am experiencing mysql connection on it. I used root@localhost but it's telling me that I couldn't connect to the database. But I know that both my username and the password are correct, so I thought that the problem might be from the hosted server, maybe my sql isn't connected to localhost or something? I am really new to this so I couldn't be sure, is there a way to tell what server the mysql has from the mysql console? Or are there other ways to do so?